AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

It seems like having the layermode set to scrolling for everything forces it to draw too much stuff. What happens if you only do one at a time?

Mark W would know more. But, I have found one at a time means it only gives extra power where it is needed.

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> On Sep 29, 2017, at 9:11 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> Jonathan:
> 
> The layermode of the scrolling groups is preset to "scrolling" 
> 
> The question is about the sequence as it relates to visual layer rendering
> 
> Open Stack A, turn on acceleratedRendering
> Open Stack B, which also turns on its "own" acceleratedRendering
> Close Stack A, *after* having open B "on top of Stack A
> 
> What are the issues, if any, with turning AcceleratedRendering On and off in the above sequence, especially on Android. 
> 
> a) do we need a "super-nuanced" on and off with careful timing? Seems way too difficult for any newbie unless we have very good documentation.
> 
> OR
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> b) is just this simple: 
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> acceleratedRendering only affects the visible stack on top and the engine, the vRam/visible view that the user sees of the top stack is totally unaffected by the state of the acceleratedRending of stack A above *during and while* Stack B is opened and rendered on the device
> 
> the latter seems to be the case on iOS, on Android we are seeing a lot of oddities. Debugging is virtually impossible since it works on iOS and Desktop.. 
> 
> On Android, you can start throwing query dialogs.  after opening Stack B and Closing Stack, you do
> 
> put the short name of the top stack into tTopStack
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> Answer tTopStack with "OK"
> 
> and you get "B" (the one just opened) but on screen we see Stack A (the one just closed)
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> 
> 
> 
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> On 9/29/17, 11:34 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>    Hi Swami,
> 
>    I turn accelerated rendering on and off depending on which group the user opens up. 
> 
>    Are you setting the layermode of each group as you go?
> 
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